<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 17, 2009, at 5:29 PM, András Murányi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "> <br> It would be super userful to have an easy way to make the various loaders auto-load (Lua, Tcl, libdir, etc). For the 0.43 GUI plugins, currently, it will autoload any file called *-plugin.tcl anywhere in the path, so to install a 0.43 GUI plugin, you just drop the file into the Pd path and restart.<br> <br></blockquote><div><br>I still don't understand why is it better to have plugins all around the patch than having them in one plugin directory.<br>Do we expect libs and abstractions having plugins bundled with them? Or is it for being able to administer them from the same place as path dirs?<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>In Debian-speak:</div>/usr/lib/pd/startup - plugins included with a package<div>/usr/lib/pd-externals - plugins in a separate package</div><div>~/pd-externals - user-installed plugins</div><div><br></div><div>In Mac OS X speak:<br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Pd.app/Contents/Resources/startup - plugins included with a package<div>/Library/Pd - admin-installed plugins</div><div>~/Library/Pd - user-installed plugins</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br style="font-family: Tahoma; "></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br style="font-family: Tahoma; "></div><div>There is no way to peace, peace is the way. -A.J. Muste</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></div></body></html>